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Registering with a notification service

To send push notifications, you will need to first register your app with the push notification service that corresponds to your app's platform (Apple APNs, Google GCM, or Microsoft WNS). Once you've registered, the service will provide you with a certificate or key that you will need when you create an API BaaS notifier. (See Creating notifiers for more information.)

Push notification services are gateways controlled by platform services (such as Apple and Google). These gateways ensure that push notifications are delivered securely and originate from trusted apps.

Click Submit to create the App ID, then click Done. You will be returned to the App IDs page.

Generating a .p12 certificate

Finally, you will generate the .p12 certificate using the App ID and signing certificate you created in the previous steps. The .p12 certificate will be sent by Apigee to Apple APNs with all push notification requests. A unique .p12 certificate is required for each app. In addition, you should create separate .p12 certificates for development and production versions of your app.

On the App IDs page, click your new App ID, then click Edit.

In the Push Notifications section, under Development SSL Certificate, click Create Certificate.

Click Choose File, select the .certSigningRequest file you saved to your Desktop in the previous section, then click Generate.

Click Done. You will be returned to the App ID settings window.

In the Push Notifications section, click Download to save the certificate (aps_development.cer file) to your Desktop.

Double-click the .cer file to install it in your keychain. The newly installed certificate will appear in your Keychain Access application under My Certificates with a name similar to "Apple Development iOS Push Services: <bundle identifier>".

Control-click the certificate and select Export.

Save the certificate to your Desktop as a 'Personal Information Exchange (.p12)' file. (You'll need this file when you create a notifier. For more information, see Creating notifiers.

In the password dialog, leave the password field blank, then click OK.

In the next dialog, enter your system password, then click Allow.

To create a notifier for sending notifications, you'll need a Google API project and register your app as part of that project. The project's identifier (project number) will become the sender ID your client code will send when registering. Registering your app will give you an API key you'll use to create a notifier. (For more information see "How the pieces connect" in Adding push notifications support.)

Click Create Project, enter a project name and ID, then follow the steps required to verify.

In the left nav, click Overview to view the project number. Note this number for later use in client code.

Click APIs in the left nav area, then click the button to enable Google Cloud Messaging for Android.

In the left nav, under APIs and auth, click Credentials.

Under Public API access, click Create New Key.

In the Create a new key dialog, click Server key. Take care not to choose "Android key," though you might be tempted to. Remember that your push notification requests will be received by Google from Apigee's server (via the notifier your code sends to Apigee), rather than directly from the device your app is installed on.

On the Create a server key... dialog, enter the IP address of the server that will be sending the notification request to Google.

Click Create.

On the Credentials page, under Key for server applications, copy the API key value for use when creating a notifier to request push notifications from GCM. (For more information, see Creating notifiers.)

To register your app with Microsoft WNS, you will need to generate the following with your Window Store Developer Account:

Identity values: These will be included in the elements of your app’s manifest file (package.appxmanifest), and includes name and publisher values.

Package security identifier (SID) and secret key: These will be needed when you create your API BaaS notifier, and will authenticate requests from your app to WNS.